English: well done, very good
German: Gut gemacht! Sehr gut!
Source: TKD (94 KE, 135 EK, 161 EK)
KLCP Level: 1
TREK TRIVIA:
majQa' "Well done!" (Kor?, DS9 "Blood Oath")
When DS9 "A Time To Stand" originally aired in the U.S. (10/1997) there was a commercial for Playmate's Star Trek "Strike Force" toy ships in which a boy in Klingon make-up and Starfleet uniform enthused, *MAKH-kwa*," subtitled "COOL!"
[BTW one occasionally hears actors pronouncing this as *mahj kwa*. I imagine this was a stray word in their script which they had to figure out on their own without help.]
Also maj "Good! Fine!" (excl):
(KGT 120): The Klingon word maj is an exclamation expressing satisfaction, generally translated as simply good, and functioning as a sentence in its own right.
(KGT 159-61): The word qu' may also be used as an exclamation ("Great! Wonderful!"). In this sense, it seems to be interchangeable with chong (literally, "be vertical"; see page 148). [...] Nonslang verbs expressing similar ideas are ... an exclamation, maj! ("Good!").
(DloraH): I have heard some, including myself, simply say maj while going for a good warrior grasp on the arm for a Klingon 'handshake'.
(Lieven, 11/2015): Besides of the verb tlho' ["thank"], remember the scene in DSN where a Klingon is given a glass of bloodwine and answers with maj. That's also a typical Klingon way to say 'thank you' like humans do.
SEE ALSO:
QaQ be good (v)
-ngan (n) inhabitant
tera'ngan (n) Terran, Earther
ngan (n) inhabitant
The Terran is brave. Very good.
Type: sentence - Source: Power Klingon
